Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-03-26
GENERAL NEWS

Carl 5churZis still suffering considerably
rom his recent accident.
Benjamin Leaventhal, in New York City.
killed his father and then himself.
Jefferson Davis writes that he Is too old to
travel, and Will not visit Washington. as in
Vited.
Aiss Sophie Bakunin, the daughter of the
Russian agltatOr, Is a student OF medicine
at the University Of Naples.
Sir Arthur Sullivan is seriously, but not
dangerously i'll at Monte Carlo, from the
effects OF earthquake shock prOstratiOn.
A question has arisen between the state of
Iowa and the Chicago, Burlington Quincy
road regarding discrimination IN rates.
Edward Unger, who murdered August
Bohie at New York and cut him up, is going
lasane from the constant torture Of dream
aAg OF his victim.
Henry F. GHIig, manager of the American
exchange IN Europe, followed Lawrence
Barrett to Grand Rapids Michigan, and at
taehed mis- properties and 81 800 in the box
once on claim for 81, 592 advanced in
england. Mr. Barrett gave bonds to pro-
duce the property when wanted
DR.. James McCann, one OF the most
prominent physicians of Pittsburg, Pa, is
seriously i'll from blood poisoning, contract
Cd while making an autopsy. His recovery
- considered doubtful
A son of Senator Patterson, the famous
oarpet-bagger of South Carolina, is an in
mate of the tOmbs prison, New York, await
ing triHl for having sWiudled a man out OF
EheenormOus sum Of 50.
Mr.. Beecher belonged TO an uueountsd
number OF clubs OF various sorts. The New
York Press club Of which he was aEmeInbe
Is In mourning for him.
It is rumOred that Minister Manning Is
soon TO send in his resignation as minister
to Mexico and the Secretary of Legation
CoEnerty is to succeed him.
A jury at Charlotte, Michigan, has given
Judgment AGAINST that city for 500 to James
Cathcarts captain in the Salvation army,
who was locked up fourteen hours for lead
ing parade in violation of orders by the
IAnzhoritles.
At Des Moines, Constable Pierce under
took to seize $4,000 worth of liquor in the
drug store of Hurlburt, Hess q Co., but was
ordered by the court to furnish a bond of
indemnity, VhereupOn h. decided only to
guard the goods until the case ia heard by
Justice Castor. Meantime the firm has adj
yertised that it will remove its business
from Iowa
Mrs. Cleveland's mourning costume, worn
IN memory of her maternal grandmother
includes tall black hat not unlike a gentle
mans silk beaver, without ribbons or feath-
ers Of any kind. Her gloves and dress are
black.
Under the new territorial marriage law of
Dakota boys of Is and girls OF 10 years ofags
parents.
1t is again rumored in San Francisco that
Senator Fair has sold to the Southern Paci-
nc company, for $1,000, 600, the Santa Cruz
steam road and the Oakland cable system.
Obadiah Wheelock, a rich and eccentric
old man of Philadelphia, hanged himself on
account of failing health.
About $4,000 was paid by a New York
house, possibly in behalf OF the st PAM
LN-lIW r1F IA nd ha
franchises of the Joliet, Aurora 4 Northern
railway.
The supreme court Of Tennessee has con
nrmed a report by referee giving Mrs. L. |
Dunn judgement against a bucket-shOp for !
tho tull amount lost by her husband in mar |
gin deals.
Great destitution exists among the Chey- |
enn5s on Rosebud and Tongue rivers IN |
Montana. Agent UpshaW last fall caused |
Indian beef cattle to be taken over to Mai
locks Fork, on the Grow reservation, three
miles from Cheyenne agency, and nearly all |
were driven back to the range IN Wyoming. |
Ihis resulted most dlsastrOusly to the Chey-
ennes, and they have had no beef raUions for |
six weeks. In the early part OF last Decsm- |
Der, the agent refused to receive any more
Hour for the Indians until needed for i'm
mediate consumption. After the great
snow storm January 1st, no flour could be
hauled TO the agency. During the last IF
teen days tbs Indians have been eating
dead ponies, and what little meat they could
get from cattle that have died from starva-
ton near the camps. Ten Indian babies
died because their mothers could not furn-
ish milk by reason of want Of food.
Samuel Wilkerson tells the story over
again IN "A Washington paper Of how he paid
Henry Ward Beecher $4,000 for q "Life of
Christ" which was never written.
President Cleveland has signed a petition
TO A. M. Palmer asking for a performance
OF ''Jim the Penmann at the capital for an
actors fund benefit
Warrants are out for the arrest of Father
Keller and Murphy, two Irish priests, who
have been very friendly to tenants who re-
sisted rent collection
Perry, IN his Boston Herald cable, does
not place much faith IN the success of the
proposed government plan of Irish fedora
ton after the sy stem IN operation for Gan
ada.
Tom Ballard, the famous eounterfeiter,
now serving a term Of thirty years in the
Albany penitentiary, Is said 70 be a mental
and physical wreck, intent only upon
suicide.
Rufus Thayer, died at Plymouth, Miohi-
gan, on farm that he purchased from the
government \ 1925.
The late Rev. Ii. W. Beecher's church, IN
Brooklyn, " as on Sunday gay with flowers
and ferns. without a sign Of mourning
Rev. Or. Lyman Abbott preached to a vast
assemblage
An Ottawa special says: Captain Scott
OF the royal navy, admiral OF the navy and
commander of the cruiser Acadia has
completed all arrangements for the begin
ming of the fishery protection on April l.
At the opening OF the season cruisers will
patrol the southwest coast of Nova Scotia
and the entrance of the bay Of Fundy, where
ali the spring fishing operations are carried
on. Later on, as summer advanced, the rest
OF the cruisers now tied up Will be put into
the commission and the feet will be con-
siderably enlarged.
Colonel Worden, an agent Of the general
land othce, has forced several lumber com
panies in Michigan to pay for cutting gov
eminent timber.
Commissioners appointed by the Masonic
Grand lodge OF New YORK have expelled
nine Objectionable characters from Prud-
ence lodge among them being Jere Dunn
and Tom Gould.
the ice only a foot thick, and predict that
the straits viii open by April 10.
The Reading road has granted an increase
Of to 10 per cent IN the wages OF lis en-
ployes at Philadelphia.
W. p. Boeoek, attorney general of Viz
ginir for two terms, died at Lynchburg,
aged 50 years.
In the suit brought against the customs
collected at Chicago by the importers of
{ 70 hundred bags CT potato starch, Judge
Blodgett decided that the article could not
be ciassed as farina, but must pay duty.
The congregational ministers of Chicago,
at recent meeting, adopted resolutions
highly euloglE1ng the late Henry Ward
Bsechsr az an author, an orator q patriot
and a philauthropl-t- The only objectOr
was Rev. Henry l. Hammond. who IS IN
able to ignore the IiltOn scandal.